Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine on Friday, saying the world had "focused narrowly on negative aspects" in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017.[FULL STORY]

Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses a plan to address the economic boom-bust cycle in states that rely heavily on “fracking” and how this...[FULL STORY]

By Steven PiferFive years after the Maidan Revolution drove out an authoritarian president, Ukraine has made significant progress on domestic reform and agreed on the goal of becoming a normal European state. However, Ukraine...[FULL STORY]

The Consummate Corner

I thought it might be an interesting exercise to look at some key US data stretching back to early 2017. When I use the word "early", I am communicating the idea that the exact date of comparisons might differ a bit for each of...[FULL STORY]